Reply #36: Once someone has been in... [View All]

the hell of combat, they will usually vote for the person that will try to keep them out of a war by all other means possible.

War should ALWAYS be the last option. Until you've seen the lives of your friends be taken, until you have sat wondering why you survived when you know the odds were against you, until you have to treat the wounded and rehabilitate after your own wounds have begun to heal; one cannot really understand what war is all about.

One of the reasons Eisenhower was elected, is because he was AGAINST war. He had sent hundreds of thousands into the gaping jaws of war, and was not particularly fond of doing that again. The vast majority of those that have seen combat, would not wish that upon others. Those that have not seen the horror of war, are still looking at oil paintings of classic wars that failed to show the carnage.

The current administration has an idea that war is some kind of glorious enterprise. They have never had to drag themselves through mud, pull leeches off of their bodies, or fill their nostrils with the stench of burning fuel, foliage and bodies. Their concept of war is born from movies like 'Patton' & 'The Sands of Iwo Jima', not from the reality of experience.

I hate these bastards, and want them OUT OF OFFICE! :grr:

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